Source: Wisconsin State Journal   Club teaches students the business of wine By CHRIS MARTELL ... ’s organizers, Jane Bills, 32, plans to open a food and wine import-export business in Napa Valley after ... of the students surveyed felt they should know a lot more about wine before they enter the business world ... intently to a teacher and taking notes.  But on a recent Friday, it was in the wine cellar of Porta...

If you have very little to do today at 1pm PST you can can me appearing on WineBiz 2.4 on the mighty KSVY 91.3. Hosts Richard Kaz Kasmier and Erik Aho put on a great show every week at this...

Source: CNN By Peter Walker for CNN (CNN) — Wine is not only one of life’s more refined and varied pleasures, it’s also increasingly big business, with more than 23 billion liters of the stuff consumed each year. And where better to learn about the global wine trade than in Bordeaux? The area around the south-western French city is the most famous wine-producing region in the world...

In an effort to boost consumption of California wines, the Wine Institute has joined ... to tie in with these programs. While Wine Institute has been involved in public policy matters in recent ... this to augment the work Wine Institute does on the public policy front,” he said. “Every day we (promote ... an industry-funded state-sponsored California Wine Advisory Board existed to promote the state’s wines...

A robot being developed in Japan uses infrared spectroscopy to “taste” wine and food. Choosing a bottle of wine is often a tough task revolving around questions such as price, grape variety and the product’s origin. Now, thanks to a sommelier robot developed by at NEC System Technologies and Mie ... contains a wine database,” Yukie Endo of NEC System Technologies told optics.org. “The database...

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 5, 2006–Capgemini, one of the world’s leaders in consulting ... to design and implement a global SAP solution by Beam Global Spirits & Wine, Inc., the world’s fourth ... will work together to transform key operational areas of the business. After recent acquisitions ... locations, such solutions aiming at enhanced accuracy, greater visibility into critical business data...

31/08/2006 - Amcor has taken out a license to bottle wine using Constar International’s oxygen-scavenging polyethylene terephthalate (PET). Amcor’ ’s decision to produce the PET bottle for customers in Australia and New Zealand provides a major boost to Constar ’s bid to market its oxygen-scavenging packaging to a wider range of drink makers. Amcor is one of the world’s largest packaging...

The 2006 grape harvest is supposed to be ripe for a good year in Virginia. With the abundance of dry weather this summer, growers were anticipating a sweeter, more robust flavored grape. But now with Tropical Storm Ernesto aiming north and heading toward the mid-Atlantic states, some Southwest Virginia vintners ...

UST’s premium brands. As for the company’s wine business, Kessler said, “I like the wine business. It has been accretive to our sales and earnings.” According to Kessler, the wine business is 3 ... , the business represents 12% of UST’s sales, but 20% of its sales growth. Still, Kessler said he would like to see the wine business increase its rate of return. UST shares were recently trading...

ALBANY—Under an agreement reached to resolve an investigation of illegal marketing practices by wine and liquor wholesalers in New York, the state’s eight largest wholesalers will adopt a series of reforms and pay $1.6 million in fines and costs. “For decades, pay-to-play practices were rampant in the state’s alcohol industry as retailers, wholesalers and suppliers used a variety of schemes...